Portland Seed Fund at the halfway mark: Monday business roundup

Doug Beghtel/The OregonianTodd Silverstein is CEO of Vizify, one of the first companies the Portland Seed Fund backed. Last week Vizify was among the hosts of a "startup crawl" for the Seed Fund's third class

Portland Seed Fund: Mike Rogoway has this expansive takeout on The Portland Seed Fund, which is an experiment to see whether public dollars
can spur follow-on private investment and whether small amounts of money
-- scattered across a couple dozen newborn businesses -- can fertilize
an enduring startup community. The fund is at its halfway point, and the initial, $3 million fund has now backed 17 companies in two groups.

Here's more reading from the business desk of The Oregonian:

Development: Elliot Njus reports on the latest regarding a convention headquarters hotel. Developers have proposed either a 600-room Hyatt Regency hotel or a
400-room Hyatt Regency with a smaller, scaled-back Hyatt Place hotel
adjacent to the hotel. Tourism officials want a block of 500 rooms to be
reserved for conventioneers.